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[January 24th, 2024 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Base & zkSync Support

What’s New

The Grants Stack team is excited to announce that Grants Stack is now supported on Base and zkSync Era!

Now, Grants Managers can create and run rounds on either Base or zkSync Era via Grants Stack Manager, and similarly, any builders can also choose to create a project profile on Base or zkSync Era via Grants Stack Builder. If you have an existing project on Builder, you can also use that project to apply to any new rounds deployed on zkSync or Base.

On Base, the following tokens are supported for payouts and for donations:

ETH
USDC

On zkSync, the following tokens are supported for payouts and for donations:

ETH
DAI
USDT
LUSD
MUTE

Why Now?

The Grants Stack team is focused on self-serve adoption of the product at this stage, and are excited about the new opportunities that come with supporting Grants Stack on Base & zkSync. We hope to make Grants Stack more accessible to those in the Base and zkSync ecosystem, and hope to power more grant rounds and funding opportunities within both ecosystems as a

result.

How does it work?

When using any of our Grants Stack apps (Builder, Manager, Explorer), you’ll be prompted to connect your wallet. Upon connecting your wallet, you’ll be able to select which network you want to use the app on. With Base and zkSync now supported, you’ll be able to choose either Base or zkSync in addition to the existing supported networks.

The network selection modal on Grants Stack Manager.

Once you select your network of choice, you can then use the apps as usual. On Builder, you can create a project, apply to rounds, etc. On Manager, you can create programs, create and run rounds, etc. On Explorer, you can find rounds, donate to rounds, etc.

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[December 7th, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] Bug fixes & 🛠️ BUILDING 🛠️

This week, the Grants Stack team has been working on bug fixes and product stability for GG19, as well as building towards our current Grants Stack feature roadmap, which includes:

Deploying Grants Stack to zkSync Era & Base
Launching new database for the Grants Stack Indexer service
Planning for Grants Stack development in 2024, which includes new Direct Grants features, Allo v2 migration, experimenting with RetroPGF and more.

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Note: This is our last feature release note of 2023. Stay tuned for a new format for feature release notes in 2024!

[November 30, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] Bug fixes & 🛠️ BUILDING 🛠️

This week, the Grants Stack team has been working on bug fixes and product stability for GG19, as well as building towards our current Grants Stack feature roadmap, which includes:

Deploying Grants Stack to zkSync Era & Base
Launching new database for the Grants Stack Indexer service

[November 23rd, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Infrastructure Improvements

This week, the Grants Stack team has been working on bug fixes and product stability for GG19, as well as building towards our current Grants Stack feature roadmap, which includes:

Deployed new indexer version with postgres database as storage backend (in staging)
Deployed an hosted instance of redash to create custom dashboards with our new db created a sample dashboard
Started designing and implementing an off-process matches calculation
Added more GG19 Collections
Enabled add all projects to cart button in Collections

[November 16th, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: New Explorer Homepage

This week, the Grants Stack team shipped a new Explorer Homepage experience, which includes a new Home tab with hand-crafted Collections and AI-powered Categories, as well as an easy way to find grant rounds via the Explore Rounds tab, as well as find projects directly via the Explore Projects tab. We also have a new search experience available via the Explore Projects tab - you can enter keywords and get results that match or are similar to your search! We’re excited about how this will help boost Project Search & Discovery on Grants Stack. See the Loom below to learn more about the Explorer Homepage:

[November 9th, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Round Edit flow v2

This week, the Grants Stack team shipped Round Edit flow v2, which enables you to edit your round more freely. The only constraints are:

You can only edit your round information if your round has not ended yet — once the round is over, all round information will be locked.
You cannot edit a date in the past
Currently, you cannot edit application questions and whether or not your round requires socials. Both of these parts of your round are not editable once you deploy your round.

Next week, we’re continuing to work on:

Redesigning Explorer to support Project Search & Discovery — including project search & filters, Categories powered by semantic search, and community-curated Collections
Adding WalletConnect v2 Support to Builder

[November 2nd, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Additional Token Support on PGN & Polygon

This week, the Grants Stack team shipped additional token support on PGN & Polygon. Now on PGN, you can set your payout token to be DAI and donors can also donate to your round on PGN in DAI. Similarly, on Polygon, you can set your payout token to be USDC and donors can also donate to your round on Polygon in USDC.

Next week, we’re continuing to work on:

Redesigning Explorer to support Project Search & Discovery
Adding WalletConnect v2 Support to Builder
Improving user experience on Manager by making the Round Edit flow more flexible

[October 26, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Passport Sliding Scale & Matching Estimates

This week, the Grants Stack team shipped Passport sliding scale system & Matching Estimates! There is a new Passport widget on Explorer, where you can see your current donation impact based off of your current Passport score. Passport scores higher than 15 will begin to be eligible for donation matching, and your donation impact scales as your Passport score increases.

New Passport widget on Explorer

Additionally, you’ll be able to see new matching estimates when checking out projects in a round. The matching estimates incorporate your donation impact, i.e. if your donation impact is 50%, and the full match for your donation is $100, then the matching you qualify at time of checkout would be $50. Note that you can always increase your Passport score, and thus increase your donation impact score and potential matching, anytime before the round(s) you have donated to have ended.

Matching Estimates on the checkout page.

Next week, we’re also working on:

Redesigning Explorer to support Project Search & Discovery
Improving user experience on Manager by making the Round Edit flow more flexible

[October 19, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] Bug fixes & 🛠️ BUILDING 🛠️

This week, the Grants Stack team has been working on bug fixes for QF and Direct Grants, as well as building towards our current Grants Stack feature roadmap, which includes:

Adding Matching Estimates to our Explorer experience — coming Monday 10/23
Adding a Passport sliding scale proportional matching system — coming Wed 10/25
Redesigning Explorer to support Project Search & Discovery
Improving user experience on Direct Grants by building a new and improved Round Edit flow and adding the capability to add/remove round operators

[October 12, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] Bug fixes & 🛠️ BUILDING 🛠️

This week, the Grants Stack team has been working on bug fixes for QF and Direct Grants, as well as building towards our current Grants Stack feature roadmap, which includes:

Adding Matching Estimates to our Explorer experience
Adding a Passport sliding scale proportional matching system
Continued investment in Indexer reliability and scalability

[October 5th, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Direct Grants on Grants Stack

This week, the Grants Stack team shipped Direct Grants — now, anyone can go to Grants Stack and create a Direct Grants round in addition to Quadratic Funding rounds, on any of the current supported chains.

We’re also also working on:

Adding Matching Estimates to our Explorer experience
Adding a Passport sliding scale proportional matching system

[September 28, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Support for Avalanche on Grants Stack

This week, the Grants Stack team finished up adding support for Avalanche on Grants Stack — now, you can create and run a round on Avalanche, as well as create projects on Avalanche via Builder.

We’re also also working on:

Integrating our new Direct Grants feature into the main Grants Stack apps
Adding Matching Estimates to our Explorer experience

[September 21, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Support for Polygon on Grants Stack

This week, the Grants Stack team finished up adding support for Polygon on Grants Stack — now, you can create and run a round on Polygon, as well as create projects on Polygon via Builder.

You can check out our demos for running a round on Polygon here:

We’re also also working on:

Integrating our new Direct Grants feature into the main Grants Stack apps
Deploying Grants Stack to additional chains, such as Avalanche
Building out an MVP of Matching Estimates to our Explorer experience

[September 13, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] Bug fixes & 🛠️ BUILDING 🛠️

This week, the Grants Stack team worked on some prep work for upcoming deployments of Grants Stack to new chains, resolving bugs that came up from the Arbitrum round, adding support for USDC on Arbitrum, and cleaning up custom Gitcoin Grants 18 (GG18) code.

Next week, we plan to work on:

Deploying Grants Stack to additional chains, starting with Avalanche
Integrating our new Direct Grants feature into the main Grants Stack apps
Starting work on improvements to our Explorer product, which will include Matching Estimates, Explorer Homepage Redesign, and improved search & discoverability features

[September 7, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Support for Arbitrum on Grants Stack

This week, the Grants Stack team finished up adding support for Arbitrum on Grants Stack — now, you can create and run a round on Arbitrum, as well as create projects on Arbitrum via Builder.

In addition to the above, we are also working on:

Deploying a MVP of our new Direct Grants app
Deploying Grants Stack to additional chains, such as Avalanche, Polygon, zkSync

[August 31st, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Support for Fantom’s GitcoinVote token

This week, the Grants Stack team wrapped up supporting Gitcoin Grants 18, and shipped support for Fantom’s valueless GitcoinVote token for Fantom’s Vault 1 Round, which is live today! You can read more about the Fantom round here.

In addition to the above, we are also working on:

Deploying Grants Stack to Arbitrum Mainnet and testnet
Deploying a MVP of our new Direct Grants app

[August 25th, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] Bug fixes & 🛠️ BUILDING 🛠️

This week, the Grants Stack team has been hard at work fixing bugs that have come up throughout Gitcoin Grants 18, as well as building new features to support upcoming self-serve QF rounds (i.e. Fantom, Arbitrum).

We’re currently working on:

Adding custom support for the Fantom’s upcoming QF round (i.e. whitelisting Fantom’s custom GitcoinVote token, implementing a vote cap)
Deploying Grants Stack to Arbitrum Mainnet and testnet
Deploying Direct Grants to a separate but compatible Grants Stack environment

[August 17th, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: Multi-Round Checkout

This week, the Grants Stack team shipped Multi-Round Checkout, which enables donors to check out projects participating in different rounds across different chains, all in the same cart.

Check out our demo here:

[August 11th, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] Bug fixes & 🛠️ BUILDING 🛠️

This week, the Grants Stack team has been heads-down supporting Gitcoin Grants Round 18 via bug fixes and building Multi-Round Checkout, which enables donors to check out projects participating in different rounds across different chains, all in the same cart.

[August 4th, 2023 | Gitcoin Grants Stack] Bug fixes & 🛠️ BUILDING 🛠️

This week, the Grants Stack team has been heads-down supporting Gitcoin Grants Round 18 via bug fixes and building Multi-Round Checkout, which will enable donors to check out projects participating in different rounds across different chains, all in the same cart. More to come next week!

[July 28, 2023| Gitcoin Grants Stack] 🚢 Shipped: PGN now supported on Grants Stack

This week, the Grants Stack team shipped support for Public Goods Network (PGN) Mainnet and testnet on all Grants Stack apps. Now, you can create a project, apply to a round, create programs and rounds, and donate to rounds all on PGN. You can learn more about PGN here.